That’s the title of my new book. I’m planning for release end of June, coinciding with approval of BPMN 2.0 by OMG. The basic idea is that using BPMN effectively requires more than a summary of the spec… especially with BPMN 2.0, on which the book is based. It needs three things besides that.
First, an [...]
BPMN is sometimes criticized for being too complicated for business users. That charge assumes that users need to understand every shape, symbol, and underlying attribute. But no one does, not even the experts, and most tools don’t even support them all.
The way around this problem is through a hierarchy of modeling “levels.” Levels are often used [...]
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[This month's BPMS Watch column on BPMInstitute.org]
Last month I gave you five things to love about BPMN 2.0. This time it’s five they left out. As a member of the development team, I understand why they were left out. And as a BPMN educator and author looking to add value on top of the standard [...]
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BPMN 2.0 is a couple weeks away from its equivalent of “code freeze” and all of a sudden there is this tidal wave of commentary on OMG’s BMI list expressing “shock” over the fact that BPMN 2.0 describes processes from the perspective of a process orchestration engine. I haven’t heard such feigned surprise and indignation [...]
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Thus, with unintended irony, did our former president illustrate the consequences of low expectations in the debate over No Child Left Behind. No Child’s insistence on achieving a minimum competence in reading and arithmetic was scorned by many as too demanding, even “elitist,” even though we all know that without those things both the child and the nation [...]
[This month's column on BPMInstitute.org]
BPMN 2.0 is almost here. If all goes as planned, it will be voted on by OMG members in June. Assuming it passes, that doesn’t mean BPMN 2.0 is officially adopted and available in commercial tools, just that it has entered the “finalization” phase when tool vendors can start building it [...]
I’ve been quiet lately for a number of reasons. A very significant one is the fact I am now participating with the technical team developing the BPMN 2.0 specification for OMG. I am trying to be a good team member and not scream too loudly about the things that are driving me crazy about it. [...]
At Oracle Open World yesterday, industry analysts got a good look at Oracle’s BPM strategy and roadmap in the wake of the BEA acquisition. Overall, my conclusion is Oracle is showing the rest of the world the right way to do software acquisitions. BPM is progressing along the path of “interoperate, integrate, unify” that Oracle claims it [...]
This post is the third in a series of comments on the BPMN 2.0 submission by IBM et al to OMG.
For me, process model portability is such an obvious goal of a notation standard like BPMN that it almost goes without saying. But we cannot take it for granted, because since BPMN 1.0 in 2004 [...]
Last fall I published my wish list for a few additions to BPMN. Typically these came from my BPMN training where a student would ask, How would you do this in BPMN?… and the spec provided no good answer. One of them, alternative entry points to a process, was explicitly addressed in the BPMN 1.1 [...]
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